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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
occur/əˈkɜː(r)/
▶verb (occurs, occurring, occurred)
- 1 happen; take place.
- 2 exist or be found to be present in a place or under a particular set of conditions: radon occurs naturally in granite.
- 3 (occur to) come into the mind of.
– origin C15: from L. occurrere ‘go to meet, present itself’, from ob- ‘against’ + currere ‘to run’.
'occur' also found in these Oxford entries:
abyss
- accompany
- advance
- alternate
- anovulatory
- arise
- asthenosphere
- atopic
- attend
- biochemistry
- bring
- call
- carbohydrate
- centre
- clash
- coincide
- come
- complementation
- condition
- co-occur
- crop
- date
- determine
- diosgenin
- eclampsia
- ecliptic
- enkephalin
- ensue
- ensure
- enterovirus
- equation
- eventuate
- fall
- false memory
- fixed-doh
- follow
- future
- happen
- hell
- hold
- impossible
- index
- intervene
- introduce
- lichen
- mean
- metabolism
- midlife crisis
- mitochondrion
- mood
Forum discussions with the word(s) "occur" in the title:
2 words occur simultaneously in the same page(s)
A marvel was about to occur
Bare infinitives occur as verbal complements of modal verbs.
benefits occur
Can things occur?
Describing regions where eathquakes occur
Do "glottalization" and "nasal stop" occur simultaneously in English?
happen occur
Happen,Come about,Occur
Is there a term to describe the days of the week as they occur during the month.
make a prediction of//predict when an earthquake will occur.
Most traffic accidents occur where/when people are within a kilometre of home.
never thought something like that could occur
Occur - past or present
occur = exist, be present, live - ?
occur in the earth's crust,
occur only OR only occur
occur through
occur to my mind
occur vs happen
occur year after year to the place
occur/happen difference
someone who occur to me
Strokes occur / a stroke occurs
syntax: although overlaps inevitably occur
tests occur 'in light of' ... WHILE they consume ...
this love shouldn't exist / occur?
To occur with
what would happen/occur to us
When stops occur before another stops [phonetics]
more...
A marvel was about to occur
Bare infinitives occur as verbal complements of modal verbs.
benefits occur
Can things occur?
Describing regions where eathquakes occur
Do "glottalization" and "nasal stop" occur simultaneously in English?
happen occur
Happen,Come about,Occur
Is there a term to describe the days of the week as they occur during the month.
make a prediction of//predict when an earthquake will occur.
Most traffic accidents occur where/when people are within a kilometre of home.
never thought something like that could occur
Occur - past or present
occur = exist, be present, live - ?
occur in the earth's crust,
occur only OR only occur
occur through
occur to my mind
occur vs happen
occur year after year to the place
occur/happen difference
someone who occur to me
Strokes occur / a stroke occurs
syntax: although overlaps inevitably occur
tests occur 'in light of' ... WHILE they consume ...
this love shouldn't exist / occur?
To occur with
what would happen/occur to us
When stops occur before another stops [phonetics]
more...
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